Posted on 03/20/2016 4:39:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On September 17, 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement exploded onto the scene. Peaceful protestors set up tents and sleeping bags in New York City's Zuccotti Park. The movement's slogan was "We are the 99 percent." Protestors railed against big banks, the growing foreclosure scandal, and political corruption. Five years later, the Occupy movement finally has the leader it never really had: Bernie Sanders.
In the years since the movement was squelched by a chillingly multi-pronged alliance between various U.S. government agencies and private enterprise, resentment toward those who retain a chokehold on power and money has simmered just below the surface, ready to boil over.
Enter Bernie Sanders, who has been widely embraced by those hungry for substantial change, unsatiated by simple platitudes. Did Occupy really fuel the fire of Sanders' popularity? I asked asked members of various Bernie Sanders Facebook groups for their opinions. Approximately 20 people answered the question of whether Occupy Wall Street helped influence the election by making voters more ready to hear Bernie Sanders' message....
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It’s tragic that so many people in this country choose to follow a man like Sanders.
Didn’t the Bern support the Wall Street bailouts?
We almost went socialist/communist or fascist at the start of the Great Depression from what I’ve read.
If Bernie is against Wall Street, he should be supporting Trump. He’s taken less from Wall Street than any of them.
I guess that the country back then decided to split the difference and elect FDR.
Hoover was actually trying some of the same schemes that Roosevelt later implemented, but his name was mud by then, so it took a new guy to foist them on everybody.
Peaceful protestors set up tents and sleeping bags in New York City’s Zuccotti Park.
Protesters who raped girls in tents at their tent city, and who defecated on police cars. Why do they leave out certain details???
Because they’re on the same team?
I think Woodrow Wilson was the one who kicked off the progressive movement who followed the ideas of the British Fabian Socialists ....”Communism by evolution, not revolution”. Gobbels is supposed to have claimed he learned his propaganda techniques by studying Wilson’s press secretary.
And Hoover did the exact opposite of what his predecessor, Calvin Coolidge, did in the 1921 depression. Coolidge’s action made that one short.
“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.”
H. L. Mencken
http://endingthefed.com/trump-under-attack-by-187-organizations-directly-funded-by-george-soros.html
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